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Fittingly, the races for the CIF Track & Field Finals started with the gathered athletes and crowd paying their respects to recently deceased Compton track coach Curtiss Seymore. <\/span>Seymore had been with the Tarbabes’ track team for four decades, until he passed away due to a heart attack two Sundays prior to the meet. <\/span>During the moment of silence, former colleagues and rivals of Seymore, who won two CIF titles, got a chance to reflect on Seymore’s legacy.<\/p>\n But, in the style of a truly enduring legacy, they didn’t have to look too far to find Seymore’s influence—after all, four of his athletes were competing later in the day. <\/span>One of those athletes, James McConico, who also stars for Compton’s football team as a running back, took some time after his fourth-place finish in the 100-meter dash to talk about his coach.<\/p>\n “When he passed we took it real hard,” he said. <\/span>“But at the same time it motivated us more to train, to find our limits and then try to go past them, to take it harder and push ourselves.”<\/p>\n McConico, the Tarbabes’ lone qualifier for next week’s CIF Masters Meet, also placed sixth in the 200-meter dash, and ran on Compton’s seventh-place 4X100 Relay team.<\/p>\n He says he’ll continue to pay tribute to coach Seymore the only way he knows how: working hard to compete at his highest level. <\/span>“It’s what he’d want me to do,” he said.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Compton coach Curtiss Seymore passed away two weekends ago–his memory was still fresh in the minds of his runners at the CIF track finals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3797"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=3797"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}